Adoption Matters
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SC issues notice to Centre on plea challenging conditions for maternity leave for adoptive mothers
Section 5(4) of the Maternity Benefit Act states that a woman can take maternity leave only if she adopts a child who is less than three months old.
Scroll Staff
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Adoption in India is a challenge. The pandemic made it a nightmare
For months, the lockdown prevented adoptive parents from getting to their babies. Now, they are facing hurdles in the legal process.
Aarefa Johari
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Around 60% of all children adopted in India in last three years were girls, shows government data
The number of girls being placed in inter-country adoption was also significantly higher than that of boys.
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Trending
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Journalist Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV
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Evolution doesn’t need millions of years. Tiger snakes on an island have evolved over just a century
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Fiction: A courtesan renounces pleasure and embraces Buddhism after she is betrayed by the world
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Bharat Jodo Yatra is ending. What do voters think about it?
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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Maneka Gandhi urges Missionaries of Charity to return to central adoption system
The organisation stopped putting children up for adoption using the central authority’s system in 2015 after refusing to follow new guidelines on the matter.
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From now on, passports for adopted children will need Child Development Ministry clearance
The order of the External Affairs Ministry comes in light of the death of Sherin Mathews, the three-year-old adopted from India who died in Texas.
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Centre tweaks adoption rules, prospective parents can no longer ‘pick and choose’ children
They can only accept or reject the child offered by the national adoption body.
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Video
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Eco India, Ep 212: More than a third of all carbon emissions are caused by construction. How to fix?
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‘Be like a man’: Journalist Anuradha Sharma on how women journalists in India are expected to work
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Watch: Model Kristen McMenamy falls, takes off heels to walk barefoot on Paris Fashion Week runway
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Watch: 2023 Jimmy Kimmel chats with 2003 Jimmy Kimmel for talk show anniversary
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Watch: How colleges across the country screened the controversial BBC documentary
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At HarperCollins India, staff adopting pets can enjoy ‘pawternity leave’
To provide the best of work-life balance, the publishing company has begun to grant employees five-day paid leaves to allow them time to bond with their pets.
Scroll Staff
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In god we trust: Adoption beats surrogacy in the movies
From embracing orphans to taking in illegitimate children, Hindi cinema has been pro-adoption (with caveats).
Damini Kulkarni
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Girl adoptions outnumber boys in last three years: Government data
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also received positive feedback from adoption agencies and other stakeholders regarding the new guidelines it implemented recently.
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The Reel
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ review: Sincere, plodding effort to debunk WhatsApp myths about the Mahatma
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‘Pathaan’ review: Shah Rukh Khan lights up an entertaining spy thriller
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Oscar-nominated film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ is cuteness unlimited
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Three Oscar nominations for India: ‘All That Breathes’, ‘RRR’ and ‘The Elephant Whisperers’